"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison

"In Dreams" is a song composed and sung by singer Roy Orbison. An operatic rock ballad of lost love, it was released as a single on Monument Records in February 1963. The song has a unique through-composed structure in seven movements in which Orbison sings through two octaves, beyond the range of most rock singers.

The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 charts at number 7, and charted in the United Kingdom for five months while Orbison toured with the Beatles.

On opening night, the audience reacted intensely toward Orbison's ballads, as he finished with "In Dreams". A Beatles biographer, later wrote "As Orbison performed, the Beatles stood in the wings, wondering how they would dare to follow him". After demanding Orbison play for double the time he was scheduled, the audience then screamed for a fifteenth encore, which Lennon and Paul McCartney refused to allow. The two held Orbison back from returning to the stage.